For over 35 years SPT has been at the heart of where experimentation and community intersect. This season we continue to present a multi-pronged conversation that highlights some of the concerns of our readers’ work. These conversations include: bodies, communities and empires.
Our Spring lineup is as follows:
Jan 15: Poets Theater
Jan 22: Poets Theater
Jan 24: Poets Theater
As part of SPT's annual fundraiser, we will be staging several works from the anthology, along with new plays, performances, and surprises by Julie Patton, Dodie Bellamy, Tonya Foster, Brent Cunningham, Cassandra Smith, Stephen Boyer, and a celebration of the release of the epic Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. . In addition, on Sunday the 24th we will present the first ever off-site Poets Theater event, with multiple simultaneous performances staged in and around the CCA campus. Please check out the SPT website and blog in January for details!
Jan 30: Brenda Coultas and Cedar Sigo on communities
Feb 12: Evelyn Reilly and Angela Carr on empiresat Nahl Hall
Feb 19: Spring Ulmer and Jen Hofer and Erica Hunt on empires
Feb 26: Lasana Sekou and Taylor Brady on empires
March 6: an evening with Harryette Mullen on bodies
March 12: on communitiesImmortal Cupboard in Search of Lorine Neidecker with filmmaker Cathy Cook
and a lecture on ecopoetics by Jonathan Skinner: Thoughts on Things:Poetics of the Third Landscape
co-sponsored by Kino 21, Artists Television Access and Poetry Center
March 13: an evening with Ronaldo Wilson on bodiesa reading and discussion of The Visible Black Body: An Interventionist's Reflection
March 20: Bruce Andrews and Leslie Scalapino on bodies
April 9: an eveing with Ammiel Alcalay on empires
with special guest Charming Hostess singing Sarajevo Blues
April 17: Aaron Vidaver and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk on empires
April 23: Pamela Lu and Mary Burger on bodies
April 25: Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems, Plays, Stories and Song for Children on communities
April 30: Laynie Browne and Lee Ann Brown on bodiesat Nahl Hall
May 7: Eileen Tabios and Susan Gevirtz on empires
May 11: Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer on communities Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Co-sponsored by Taube Center for Jewish Life
May 22: SPECIAL EVENT: the Relequarium (a fundraiser and party for SPT)
It should go without saying that there is no better time to
become a member of SPT. If you value SPT and the incredible writers we showcase, show your support by becoming a member (or, if you already are, by making an additional donation) today at sptraffic.org.
I am grateful and honored to be a part of Small Press Traffic. I hope you are too.
Happy New Year!Samantha
